Senior Manager Payroll

Swire Coca-Cola • Denver, CO

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About The Position

The Senior Manager, Payroll provides enterprise leadership over payroll operations, systems, and controls within a Dayforce managed services environment, with a focus on ensuring accurate, compliant, and scalable payroll processes while thoughtfully evaluating upstream and downstream impacts across HR, Finance, Compliance, and Reporting. This role requires a highly detail-oriented, process-driven, and strategic leader who excels at anticipating second- and third-order effects when implementing policy, system, or process changes. The ideal candidate brings a structured, methodical approach to problem-solving, strong technical, analytical, documentation, and communication skills, and the ability to work independently while partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders in an outcome-driven environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive payroll experience with enterprise-wide Tier 1 HCM platforms, including hands-on configuration and optimization required
• Experience leading payroll process improvements in complex, multi-state environments required
• Experience supporting payroll in complex employment states such as California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington required
• Holistic approach to policy changes anticipating downstream and long-term impacts of system and policy changes required
• Experience supporting multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction, or high-volume payroll environments required

Nice To Haves

• Payroll compliance, internal controls, and audit considerations experience preferred
• Prior experience supporting short-term optimization or transformation initiatives within payroll preferred
• Cross functional partnership experience with Finance, Internal Audit, Benefit teams, etc. preferred
• Bachelor Degree in Business, Finance, or similar preferred

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support end-to-end payroll operations within a Dayforce managed services environment, including processing, reporting, reconciliations, and issue resolution
• Ensure compliance with all applicable wage and hour laws, tax regulations, and employment standards across multiple states and jurisdictions, including management of payroll-related audits, tax filings, and regulatory inquiries
• Identify, mitigate, and prevent payroll risks by establishing and maintaining strong internal controls, including segregation of duties, approvals, exception handling, remediation, and audit readiness, while preventing fraud, errors, and unauthorized changes
• Design, standardize, and document end-to-end payroll processes to improve accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and auditability across the enterprise, including SOP development and control testing
• Develop and maintain payroll business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure operational resilience
• Partner closely with HRIS, Payroll, Finance, IT, Compliance, and Dayforce Managed Services to align payroll solutions with business needs and enterprise priorities
• Lead or support Dayforce payroll configuration, testing, validation, and parallel payroll testing, while evaluating upstream and downstream impacts across HR, benefits, time & attendance, finance, reporting, and system integrations
• Analyze payroll data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for process improvements, efficiency gains, and cost savings
• Support change management efforts to ensure adoption, consistency, and long-term sustainability of payroll process and system improvements
• Lead, mentor, and develop payroll team members by setting clear goals, driving accountability, and fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement

Benefits

• Health coverage (3 medical options, dental and vision)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan w/company match
• Health Savings Accounts w/company match
• FREE virtual primary care, acute care and physical therapy
• FREE Employee Assistance Program
• Company paid (vacation, holidays, sick time, bereavement, jury duty, maternity/parental, disability leave and volunteer time)
• Discounted & free product
• Tuition reimbursement
• Opportunities for career advancement
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy, Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, Supplemental Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance, Short-Term Disability Insurance, Long-Term Disability Insurance, Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Telehealth, Virtual Mental Health Counseling, 401(k) with Company Match, Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Time, Paid Holidays, Maternity Disability Paid Leave, Parental Paid Leave, and Tuition Reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior